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“No element at this stage we are oriented to something other than suicide,” the researchers said.

The researchers favored this Saturday, the track of suicide in the death of the british photographer David Hamilton, that several former models were accused recently of rape and sexual assault.

“No element at this stage we are oriented to something other than suicide. Was found dead at his home with a bag on the head”, said the PAF a source close to the investigation.

The medical examiner will conduct toxicological analysis because they found drugs in a bathroom, said the source.

The fire, called in on a Friday night, they had found Hamilton’s “cardiorespiratory arrest”, said a source from the emergency services.

they Were alerted by a neighbor who saw the door of the apartment of the photographer was ajar.

the photographer of The 83-year-old, known for his pictures of teenagers, she wore 20 years installed in Paris.

David Hamilton became famous in the seventies for their photos “flou” (soft focus or blur), reminiscent of impressionists, that caused admiration, to such an extent that some critics coined the expression “blur hamiltonian”.

In particular by the luscious photos of teens, half-naked, which gave rise to a profound debate about the boundaries of art and pornography, a controversy that fueled his popularity and led him to sell two million copies of his books.

“The feminists always left me quiet. And my job has nothing to do with the vulgarity that is there now,” he said in an interview to the magazine of the heart Gala in may of 2015.

Hamilton returned to the fore in the media recently after several women accused him of having violated when they were teenagers, among them tv presenter French Flavie Flament, in many cases, during the photo sessions.

Hamilton had repudiated the Tuesday these allegations and threatened to file a lawsuit for libel.

“I Am innocent, and I should be considered as such”, he had said in a statement sent Tuesday to the AFP.

“Now, I am not the subject of any indictment. It is disregarding my presumption of innocence. I am innocent and as such should be considered,” read the statement sent to AFP.

The justice had not received any lawsuit against Hamilton.

In his book “The consolation” (JC Lattès), Flavie Flament had revealed that she had been raped 30 years ago by a well-known photographer, who did not need the name.

After the appearance of the book, other women had borne witness, under a pseudonym, to have been raped or sexually assaulted by the same photographer.

The presenter ended up revealing the name of her alleged assailant last week. “The man who raped me when I was 13 years old is David Hamilton,” he said in a filmed interview to the French weekly L Obs.

Flament, of 42 years, explained that “he had no right to quote the name of David Hamilton, in his book, because (…) currently, the limitation is a double conviction for rape victims”, referring to the risk of being accused of libel.

In France, the rape of minors prescribes after 20 years from the coming of age of the alleged victim and the sexual assault from 10 years.

Flament reacted almost immediately to the death of Hamilton and told the AFP that he was “devastated by the news. “The horror of this ad is not going to achieve clear never the of our sleepless nights,” he said.